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Overview

Nils Boysen is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and focuses primarily on engineering, with a significant number of publications in industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their research encompasses several key fields and topics within engineering, including:

  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
  • Optimization and Packing Problems
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Smart Parking Systems Research

Among their recent scholarly articles, several have gathered a notable number of citations:

  • "Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective" (2020), published in OR Spectrum
  • "Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?" (2021), published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Optimizing the changing locations of mobile parcel lockers in last-mile distribution" (2020), published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • "The forgotten sons: Warehousing systems for brick-and-mortar retail chains" (2020), published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Crowdshipping by employees of distribution centers: Optimization approaches for matching supply and demand" (2021), published in European Journal of Operational Research

Nils Boysen frequently publishes in several well-known venues, including:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • OR Spectrum
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Transportation Science
  • Journal of Scheduling

Collaborations have played a significant role in their work. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Dirk Briskorn
  • Stefan Schwerdfeger
  • Konrad Stephan
  • Stefan Bock
  • Simon Emde

Best Publications

  • A classification of assembly line balancing problems

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Armin Scholl

  • Assembly line balancing: Which model to use when?

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Armin Scholl

  • Sequencing mixed-model assembly lines: Survey, classification and model critique

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Armin Scholl

  • Warehousing in the e-commerce era: A survey

    Nils Boysen;René de Koster;Felix Weidinger

  • Cross Dock Scheduling: Classification, Literature Review and Research Agenda

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner

  • Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective

    Nils Boysen;Stefan Fedtke;Stefan Schwerdfeger

  • Part logistics in the automotive industry: Decision problems, literature review and research agenda

    Nils Boysen;Simon Emde;Michael Hoeck;Markus Kauderer

  • Scheduling last-mile deliveries with truck-based autonomous robots

    Nils Boysen;Stefan Schwerdfeger;Felix Weidinger

  • Scheduling inbound and outbound trucks at cross docking terminals

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Armin Scholl

  • Truck scheduling at zero-inventory cross docking terminals

    Nils Boysen

  • Parts-to-picker based order processing in a rack-moving mobile robots environment

    Nils Boysen;Dirk Briskorn;Simon Emde

  • Drone delivery from trucks: Drone scheduling for given truck routes

    Nils Boysen;Dirk Briskorn;Stefan Fedtke;Stefan Schwerdfeger

  • Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?

    Nils Boysen;Philipp Schulze;Armin Scholl

  • Optimally routing and scheduling tow trains for JIT-supply of mixed-model assembly lines

    Simon Emde;Nils Boysen

  • Shunting yard operations: Theoretical aspects and applications

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Florian Jaehn;Erwin Pesch

  • A Survey on Container Processing in Railway Yards

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Florian Jaehn;Erwin Pesch

  • Just-in-Time supermarkets for part supply in the automobile industry

    Daria Battini;Nils Boysen;Simon Emde

  • Production planning of mixed-model assembly lines: overview and extensions

    Nils Boysen;Malte Fliedner;Armin Scholl

  • A survey on single crane scheduling in automated storage/retrieval systems

    Nils Boysen;Konrad Stephan

  • Just-in-Time supermarkets for part supply in the automobile industry

    Daria Battini;Nils Boysen;Simon Emde

  • Optimally locating in-house logistics areas to facilitate JIT-supply of mixed-model assembly lines

    Simon Emde;Nils Boysen

  • ABSALOM: Balancing assembly lines with assignment restrictions

    Armin Scholl;Malte Fliedner;Nils Boysen

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Scholl
Armin Scholl Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Erwin Pesch
Erwin Pesch University of Siegen
Christian M. Ringle
Christian M. Ringle Hamburg University of Technology
Daria Battini
Daria Battini University of Padua
René de Koster
René de Koster Erasmus University Rotterdam
Michael Schneider
Michael Schneider RWTH Aachen University
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra Northwestern University
Sigrid Knust
Sigrid Knust Osnabrück University

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